/vr/ - Retro Games

Blinxs always felt like he was in the wrong era, no pun intended.
It's like microsoft wanted their own early 90's animal mascot dripping with attitude, but forgot it was the 00's.

>>8196046
They probably started planning him in the 90’s considering it was an early title.

Voodoo Vince >>>>>>>>>>>>> Blinx

>>8196046
Blinx would be right at home on Dreamcast in 1999. The gaming industry moved fast back then.

>>8196046
Nobody knew what the 00s was going to be like back then (we're looking at this retrospectively), so having something what was conventional by gaming standards (mascot platformer) for the past 15+ years would've been a very easy sell for Microsoft to invest in.

That being said, Microsoft correctly made the wiser choice to invest more heavily in Halo. Halo being a success might seem like a revolutionary and genius move for most people, especially PlayStation fans, but the whole thing was very planned. PC already had successful FPS games years earlier, and N64 also had GoldenEye and Perfect Dark. Simply put, Halo was really just Microsoft marketing and selling Unreal for a console audience, and it worked.

Sonic and Mario are like those aging metal/hard rock guys who were big in the 80s, but during the 90s got overlooked for edgy new trends, but those hard rock guys are still around today selling out stadiums while the grungy edgy guys are mostly all dead

>>8196251
10/10 analogy.

>Blinx is so dead, he's in the public domain now
Not even Gex is in the public domain.

>>8196474
the trademark has lapsed but they still have the copyright, and since blinx is more recent than mickey mouse that'll never lapse

>>8196032
Blinx was a decade too late to the scotformer train

>>8196256
>>8196251
>Sonic didn't exist in the 80s
>both saw wild dominating success in the 90s
Uhhh ...

>>8196559
>>Sonic didn't exist in the 80s
>>both saw wild dominating success in the 90s
>Uhhh ...
Mario first appeared in 1981's Donkey Kong. Sonic first appearance was Sega's Rad Mobile arcade game, in 1990. But Sonic's first game was the Sega Genesis (released before the Mega Drive versions) Sonic 1 in June 1991.

>>8196559
I think means the general career arc not necessarily those specific years. Sonic and Mario in sixth gen really lost a lot of steam.

UHH NINTENDO STOLE THE VACUUM MECHANIC FROM BLINX

>>8197760
You just explained why that analogy isn’t very good. Sonic is that 90s trend.

>>8196559
he said "LIKE"
do you know what an analogy is anon?

>>8196251
This is perfectly said.

I really enjoyed blinx and psychonauts but I've never found anything like them. I dunno what genre they are

>>8196032
James Bond

>>8198115
>You just explained why that analogy isn’t very good. Sonic is that 90s trend.

Sonic was designed as a mascot right from the start, and the original Sonic the Hedgehog was designed to upstage the western release of Super Mario World. Super Mario World was released for the Japanese Famicom in December 1990, and the US/NA release was August 1991. Sega of America had copies of Super Mario World while Sonic 1 was in development. They would bring the Famicom versions around to shop[ping malls along with Sonic 1 betas to gauge Sonic 1 to Super Mario World, Sonic was favourably more popular according to focus groups. Sonic 1 was released June 1991, and was definitely going for that early 90's appeal. This version of Sonic faded out of popularity. But Sega did very much reboot Sonic for 1998/1999 with Sonic Adventure. I think they gave Sonic a bit more of a tude, made his design a little slicker/ more angular. This was Sonic's second design throughout the 2000's. I think Sega was able to adjust Sonic for the 2000's and still make the character popular. The Sonic comparison is kind of weird, though. because Sonic was multi-platform (and on Xbox) by the time Blinx was announced. Jak and Daxter were the Sony mascots for the PS2 generation.

>>8196032
I miss the scotformer fad from that gen. Scaler, Vexx, Ruff Trigger, Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer, Tork, I-Ninja, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger...not all of them were good, but that fad was killed by shooters and metroidvanias

Sonic adapted to the 00's pretty well.

Nintendo tried a little with Mario...

>>8199206
N-NO

IT WAS ROUGH

>>8200280
>N-NO
>IT WAS ROUGH

I'm not saying that everything Sonic related that came out of that era was good. I just mean Sonic was still a really big success throughout the 2000's. Sega made a lot of money from Sonic.

EGM shilled Xbox harder than the Official Xbox magazine.

>>8196032
Good thing they just stuck to chief blinx was gay as fuck

>>8200461
>Good thing they just stuck to chief blinx was gay as fuck

Master Chief was a mainstream Doom Space Marine with a voice.

>>8200493
>Master Chief was a mainstream Doom Space Marine with a voice.

master Chief was like a cross between Samus Aaron and Doom Space Marine. It's funny, because Halo originally premiered at an Apple event, showing of Halo running on a G4 with OpenGL. Then Microsoft money hats Bungie into making halo Xbox exclusive. Then Halo becomes the definitive Xbox series. Master Chief may as well be the mascot of the console. Blinx was a good attempt. I think Blinx could use a reboot?

>>8200514
>Aaron

>>8196032
That's the reason Mario and Sonic had to ally. Divided, they wouldn't have stood a chance againt him.

>>8196032

Then why hasn’t he got a new game after his sequel?

>>8196046
>Blinxs always felt like he was in the wrong era, no pun intended.

Where's the pun in this post?

Ty actually backed it up though

>>8200782
>Ty actually backed it up though

>>8200782
>>8200846
Move over, has-beens.

>>8200514
>Halo originally premiered at an Apple event

https://youtu.be/6eZ2yvWl9nQ?list=TLPQMDIxMDIwMjGbO2QQxOucUg
> Steve Jobs: "This is the coolest games that I have ever seen..." (Steve Jobs is not really into games, but still has to acknowledge the popularity of computer gaming)
> "This game is going to ship early next year (2000) for Bungie (on Macs)"
>Then Jason Jones comes up on stages and shows off Halo running on a Mac with the power of OpenGL.
> Microsoft jumps in and steals Halo for the Xbox. game comes out in 2001.

>>8200962
steve jobs loved video games. I remember playing the original marathon with him for a little bit. He was a cool guy.

>>8200969
>steve jobs loved video games. I remember playing the original marathon with him for a little bit. He was a cool guy.

Oh that is interesting. I have always heard otherwise. but then again, Steve Jobs use to showcase random indie games for iOS at the later Apple events.

>>8201001
Yeah steve was a good friend.

>>8198141
This reply is like the Empire State Building. They both exist.

>>8198385
No it fucking isn't, stop replying to yourself.

>>8199137
Yes, and? What does that have to do with the reply.

>>8200493
Mad that hes not a furry with big gloves and shoes huh

>>8201018
>Mad that hes not a furry with big gloves and shoes huh

Nah. It was kinda a good thing they didn't go that direction.

>>8200772
I've never played Blinx myself, but apparently it was about time travel and stuff, so "era" would be the pun in that post.

>>8196251
pretty much this

>>8196251
Half of what you said is factually wrong.